Button-setting machine



(No Model.)

' J. H. VINTON.

. BUTTON SETTING MAGHINE.

No. 402,047. Patented Apr. 23, 1889.

''UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN H. VINTON, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE PENIN- SULAR NOVELTY COMPANY, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MIOHIGANI BUTTON-SETTING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 402,047, dated April 23, 1889.

Application filed August 16, 1888.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN H. VINTON, of

, Boston, county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Button-Setting Machines, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

Application Serial No. 261,041, filed by me January 17, 1888, shows a button-setting machine designed to be operated by hand, it

containing a driver, a movable or yielding .carrier, and raceway, the said carrier being arranged to present the fastening and at- I 5 tached button directly beneath the driver.

The anvil was therein shown as movable ina direct line toward the driver, and to hold the fastenings and buttons suitable spring-controlled retaining devices'were shown. Many of the features above described are also shown and described in an application of E. O. Ely, filed February 21, 1887, Serial No. 228,309. An application filed by me January 12, 1888, Serial No. 260,529, also shows a machine com- 2 5 prising many of the features above described, and in addition thereto two feed-dogs which operate as let-off devices for the buttons and fasteners.

My present invention has for its object to 0 construct a feeding device especially applicable to the machine shown in application Serial No. 261,0a1, but which is also applicable to the machines shown in the other applications referred to.

In this my present invention I employ a pivoted retaining-lever, one end of which cooperates with a fixed pin or stud, by which the said lever is turned on its pivot, and the said lever having at its opposite end a spring-con- 0 trolled or yielding button-holder. The retainin g-lever is designed to hold the lowermost button, the fastener for which is in the raceway, while a preceding button and its connected fastening previously discharged from the raceway into the carrier are being removed from the carrier by the driver, and to thereafter release the said lowermost button and its fastening, and then engage the next to the endmost button in the raceway, and so on, thereby permitting one button and connected Serial No. 282,900. (No model.)

fastening to pass from the raceway to the carrier at each complete movement of the retaining-lever.

Figure 1 shows in side elevation a portion of abutton-setting machine having a buttonretaining lever serving as a feeding device in accordance with this invention; Fig. 2, a similar view showing the buttonretaining lever lifted, a portion of the raceway and carrier being broken out.

The arm A, the driver a, attached rigidly to the said arm, the spring-controlled or yielding carrier 19, the raceway a, movable simultaneously with the carrier 1), are all as in my application Serial No. 261,041, and also in application of E. O. Ely, Serial No. 228,309, referred to.

v The carrier b is recessed at its upper end to receive in it the journals of a friction-roll, 50, and'a long slender flat spring, 51, is attached at one end to the arm A, the opposite or free end bearing upon said friction-roll, the tendency of the spring being to depress the carrier b. The raceway c is supplied with buttons in any usual manner.

,The button-retaining lever f is pivoted at f to the frame f which connects the raceway and carrier, so that as the raceway and carrier are raised the said lever will be raised with it. The lever has at one end a cam-slot, 8o f which receives a pin, f, fixed to the arm A, the slot being curved at its lower end toward the right. (See Fig. 1.) The opposite or outer end of the said lever f receives and carries a sliding pin or presser, 2, having, as shown, a concaved head, 3, which acts upon and holds the button, a spring, 4, (see dotted lines, Fig. 1,) encircling the said pin 2 and normally acting to press the pin into engagement with the head of the button. Fig. 1 0 shows the parts in their normal position or at rest. As the carrier 19 is raised or made to slide in the direction of the arm, Fig. 1, the raceway is also raised with it, and the driver a will enter the carrier and drive from it the staple thereon.

As the raceway and carrier ascend from the position Fig. 1 to that in Fig. 2 the pin f in the slot f causes the lever f to turn on its pivot into the position shown in Fig. 2, thereby I00 removing the spring-controlled presser from the endmost button, 20, and at such time the driver a, occupying a position at the lower end of the carrier, obstructs the passage from the raceway into the carrier, so that the lowermost fastening in the raceway in falling strikes upon or against the driver a, and is thereby held.

As the carrier and raceway are in their reverse movement descending, the driver a ceases to obstruct the passage connecting the raceway and carrier, and hence the lowermost staple falls into the carrier, and is there held by a spring-controlled pin, 12, the lever f at this time returning to its normal position and causing the spring-controlled pin 2 to act upon or engage the next button, as 20, to the one connected to the fastening, which has just passed from the raceway into the carrier.

At the next operation of the machine the staple and button contained in the carrier are removed by the driver, and the next staple and button permitted to enter, and so on.

By making the pin 2 movable or yielding, as shown, it will correctly act upon or engage the heads of buttons of different thicknesses and shapes, and by so constructing the parts that the driver may at each operation of the machine obstruct the passage connecting the raceway and carrier but one feed or retaining lever is necessary.-

It will be seen that the button-retaining lever f herein shown may be readily applied to any of the machines shown in the applications referred to.

I claim- 1. In a button-setting machine, the simultaneously movable carrier and raceway constructed and arranged to receive and hold button-fastenings and attached buttons, and a spring-controlled pin, 12, within said carrier, combined with the driver adapted to obstruct the passage connecting the raceway and carrier, and to remove from the carrier the fastening contained and held therein by the said pin as the said raceway and carrier ascend, substantially as described.

2. In a button-setting machine, the staplereceiving raceway, combined with the movable feed and a retaining-lever having the yielding pin or presser to act upon the button, substantially as described.

3. In a button-setting machine, the raceway to receive button-fastenings and connected buttons, combined with the movable buttonretaining lever f, formed at one end to co-operate with a fixed pin or stud, f and having a spring-pin at its other end, substantially as described.

4. In a button-setting machine, the arm A and the carrier 12, combined with the spring 51, attached to the arm A, acting on the car rier, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN II. VINTON.

Witnesses:

BERNICE J. Novas, F. L. EMERY. 

